Some dude redesigns the helmet

EDIT: Twitter acts like this is real, but it seems like some guy just designed an updated look for our helmet. Ondre Pipkins tweeted this earlier and I posted it as "new helmet." It's not. Title changed to avoid pissing people off.

They aren't Nike helmets, Nike doesn't make helmets. Those are Ridell helmets. I don't think college teams have deals with helmet companies. I think this is the same type of helmet that Roundtree wore all year.

I saw his tweet and was like Nooooo!!!! But I read up on it a little bit and it is just a rendering of what our procombat helmet would look like through the eyes of the creator. He also did an all blue version which I didn't care for much, but it is kinda cool

Maybe we could put each player's astrological sign on the side? Or, their Twitter id. Or, a picture of some tasty Arby's curly fires, which could significantly boost in-stadium sales. Here I'll show you; I'll go ahead right now and boost some curly-fry sales:

Or how about this; we take the basic winged design, and we transform it into two shades of titanium/platinum, one in a kind of matte finish and one in a kind of mirror finish. It might look something like so:

I have to admit, I'm almost ALWAYS on the side of tradition. I just feel that we have the most classic uni's in the game. Having said that, and I kind of hate that I feel this way, but I love that design! Love the "M"!

I like the way he went after the design. He basically says touching the wings would be stupid and we have the best helmet out there. But using things like classic Bo M and maize from before it went neon, I can appreciate the work.

I'm kind of a fan of the helmets. I don't know why most Michigan fans are ultra conservatives when it comes to jersey alterations but you guys have to think of the players and recruits. I know this is just some guy messing around with photoshop, regardless... These are 17/18 year olds playing the game, they want something fresh and new... This isn't 1970 guys, let's have some fun and keep the tradition of Michigan football on the field regardless of what they're wearing.

What they're wearing is a fundamental, defining part of that tradition. You see a winged helmet, even on a high school field, the first thing you think is Michigan. To paraphrase Fritz Crisler, "tradition isn't something you can buy at the corner store."

This "Some dude" is making spec designs as a fun-time amateur-hour art project. Methinks it's all a bunch of wasted time.

I can't remember where I saw it, but I remember seeing a fan generated helmet redesign that simply changed the paint job on the face mask such that the maize brim of the helmet was demarcated in maize on the cage as well, with the rest of the cage blue.

Such a simple thing looked very sharp without altering the traditional helmet itself.

And the cage paint jobs have changed a bit over the years, so that shouldn't be the sacred cow that the wings have understandably become.

Incidentally, I HATED the gray cages at the Sugar this year: I had thought that the reason we left the old gray cages behind was because Bo wanted to purge the uniform of ANY Ohio coloring. So I thought bringing them back was misguided. I'd rather have the maize AND blue cages that continue the wing coloring motif as above than FILTHY GRAY.